Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which is called the Neutrality Act: whether to extend, revise, or scrap it (see p. 18). But everyone knew that, Neutrality Act or no Neutrality Act, the nation's predominant emotions and judgment would in the end determine its international course. By last week two opposed bodies of thought and emotion, both based on the premise that "no one wants war," were discernible in the U. S. Franklin Roosevelt was, of course, leader of one of them...
...giving Congress sole power to levy tariffs and otherwise regulate commerce between the States, the Founding Fathers thought to insure free trade within the U. S. and prevent in future the economic horrors of the Revolutionary Confederation. But modern States have the express power to restrict liquor imports (granted by the 21st Amendment, on the mistaken assumption that only dry States would use it), to tax liquor for revenue, police their own citizens and commerce for the public good. In self-defense, in response to pressure-groups, and, most of all, in blind efforts to combat Depression, the States have...
...Neville Chamberlain. Later both went to Parliament. In the House of Commons Opposition members emphatically wanted to know: 1) what Lord Stanhope's revelations meant; 2) how the Government could justify such a censorship of the press. Deputy Labor Leader Arthur Greenwood pointedly asked Mr. Chamberlain if he thought Lord Stanhope was a "fit person to hold an important office...
...straightforward Joe Lyons broke with his party and resigned from Australia's Labor Cabinet, when inflation and debt repudiation, which he thought dishonest, were proposed as the way out of Australia's financial crisis. Taunted for betraying his party, he replied that he would rather desert his party than his country. The Labor Cabinet fell, and he became Prime Minister as leader of a Conservative Coalition. Ruthless slashing of expenses, increases in taxes and refunding of the debt at lower interest rates prepared the way for a real recovery from Depression...
Visitors to the New York World's Fair last week: Mrs. Vincent Aston, chairman of the Fair's Advisory Committee on Women's Participation, returned from playing hooky in Egypt. Said she: "I am a week late, but I thought it would be silly to spend only a day or two in Paris. I have to report now and get my orders and I am ready to go to work." Donna Cora Caetani of Italy, one of Europe's best-dressed women, sporting a wool-like suit and sweater made of skim milk, brought 70 dresses...